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In this movie, we will look at importing audio into your Pro Tools session. I am starting out here with a blank session. There are no tracks, no audio files. It's called PTimporter. Let's go look at the settings for this session. To do that I can go to my windows menu and choose show session setup or I can type Command+2 on the numeric keypad from my keyboard or Control+2 on my numeric keypad if I were on a pc. First of all, we have the sample rate which is set to 96 kHz, bit-depth of 24 bits, audio format which is .wav and I have pc Mac compatibility enforced. I also have the fader gain set to +12db. These are the same settings I used when I created that my new song session, a little while ago. I showed you these settings because they are going to become important here in just a little bit. Let's go ahead and dismiss this dialogue box and go to the file menu and choose import audio to track. Ok, now notice this dialogue box is way huge, far too big for this movie. Pro Tools is really not designed to work with the screen quite this small. As a result, this dialogue box is kind of hanging off the bottom of my screen. I pulled a trick on Pro Tools because I am actually capturing this at a much larger resolution and with that we will go ahead and zoom out to see the full screen that I am capturing. So now we have the whole dialogue box, I will go ahead and click on the audio file that I want to take a listen to. As soon as I clicked it, some things changed here. I brought up the file type which is AIFF or aiff as some people call it. The length is 3 minutes 55 seconds and this is 555 thousands of a second. The size in kilobytes, the bit-depth which is 16, keep that in mind; sample rate 44.1 kHz, keep that in mind as well and its two channels are a stereo file. Also keep in mind, this is an AIFF file and of course our session is designed to work with wave format audio files. And they are supposed to be 24 bits and 96 kHz not 44.1 kHz. So what can we do? Well, we have to convert this file over. Before we do that, let's take a listen to it and see if this is the one that I wanted. Let's go and grab a point of interest in this song, at least something that interests me and we will go ahead and use these tools down here to kind of audition or preview this audio file. I can control volume level here. Yep, this is the one I wanted. So now that I have determined that, now I need to convert it over to a format that's compatible with this document by clicking the convert button. If I had more than one item over here in this bin, I could say convert all and they would all appear on the right. Now I will click done and Pro Tools presents us with yet another dialogue box asking us where it wants us to put the converted version of this audio file. The default as we see here is the audio files folder which was created with this PTimporter session and we will go ahead and choose that. And now Pro Tools will proceed to convert this file over to a format that is compatible with our current session; 24 bits, 96 kHz, wave file. And now we see some things we have seen before. We have the item entered into the show-hide bin, we have the track itself out here and we can see it's a stereo track because there's two waveforms, one for left and one for right, and over here on our audio bin, we have an entry as well. Let's go ahead and play this. Yep, that's the file that we listened to before.
Course: | Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 |
Author: | Nathan Dickson |
SKU: | 33599 |
ISBN: | 1-932808-46-9 |
Release Date: | 2005-02-25 |
Duration: | 9 hrs / 101 lessons |
Work Files: |
Yes |
Captions: | No |
Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |